EagleFiler 1.9.16 is a maintenance release of my Mac files/notes/e-mail manager. This version improves the formatting of community notes and quote tweets when importing from X/Twitter and includes a bunch of other fixes (e.g. for the help viewer) along the lines of what was in SpamSieve 3.1.
I had left in support for Growl, even after it was retired, in case anyone was still using it, but it’s now removed because it seemed to trigger the local network privacy alert in Sequoia.
As I’ve mentioned, I don’t entirely understand what’s going on with OneDrive and Sequoia, but there are a bunch of changes that will hopefully help for libraries that are stored in OneDrive or iCloud Drive.
Previously:
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Rich Trouton:
SAP has released a new major version of their open source Privileges app. This tool provides macOS standard user accounts with a way to request administrator rights. Privileges 2.x includes a number of new features not available in Privileges 1.x and in particular fulfills two particular long-standing requests from its user community:
- It provides a unified mechanism for time-limited admin rights.
- SAP now provides a signed and notarized installer package for deployment.
Rich Trouton:
The relevant preference domain and key values are listed below:
- Preference domain: corp.sap.privileges
- Key: ExpirationInterval
- Value: Positive Integer
Previously:
Mac Mac App macOS 15 Sequoia Privileges.app
Curtis Herbert et al.:
As of this season, Slopes is a team of seven full-time employees, two contractors, two interns, and me. 🤯 Everything you’ve seen in Slopes over the past few years around interactive resort maps is the kind of feature only an amazing team can pull off. I thought it’d be cool to start pulling back the curtain and allow others at Slopes to share the awesome stuff they’ve been cooking up directly with you, beginning with Jess and Lydia from our mapping team…
[…]
We’ve been consistently expanding our coverage of 3D interactive maps since they were first introduced in 2021. And now, we’re kicking off this season with over 1,500 new resorts added to the list, bringing our total coverage to 2,000+ resorts across the world. About 650 of these areas feature custom Slopes mapping meticulously crafted by our team, while the rest are sourced through a special integration with OpenStreetMap (OSM).
I’m pleased to see that Slopes is doing so well, even though many resorts now have their own free apps that offer some similar features as well as access to their own private realtime data.
Lydia:
Mapping ski resorts from scratch, we use GIS software to layer our data over high-resolution imagery and other spatial datasets. This imagery, often at 1-meter resolution in many parts of the world, comes from satellite and aerial sources. We use it as a reference to manually draw resort features (yup, that's right, we draw overlays by hand) in their correct geographic locations. The fine resolution of the imagery allows us to clearly map lifts and resort buildings.
[…]
We use fully anonymized data from Slopes recordings to improve the accuracy of our maps. We plot a subset of this data as a heatmap and layer it under the resort. Combined with official trail maps, we are then able to determine where to add run lines, and their orientations. This information removes the guesswork and provides us with good accuracy.
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Josh Aas (in 2014, via Hacker News):
For many server operators, getting even a basic server certificate is just too much of a hassle. The application process can be confusing. It usually costs money. It’s tricky to install correctly. It’s a pain to update.
Let’s Encrypt is a new free certificate authority, built on a foundation of cooperation and openness, that lets everyone be up and running with basic server certificates for their domains through a simple one-click process.
From my perspective, they delivered just what they promised.
Previously:
Anniversary Let’s Encrypt Privacy SSL/TLS Web
